Types of Energy Physics

What is kinetic energy?

• The stored energy of an object due to its position or condition.

• The energy that an object has due to its motion.

• The energy an object has due to its existence.

• The energy an object has due to its volume.

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The amount of kinetic energy an object has depends on its:

• Mass and volume.

• Volume and friction.

• Mass and speed.

• Speed and density.

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When is kinetic energy transferred from object to object?

• When those objects pass one another

• When the first object outweighs the second object

• When the first object has more potential energy than the second object

• When those objects collide

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In a generator, kinetic energy is transformed into:

• Motion

• Potential energy

• Electrical energy

• Solar power

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Which of the following objects has the most potential energy?

• A ball sitting on a table.

• A ball resting on the ground.

• A ball sitting on a mountaintop.

• A ball that's been thrown into the air.

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How is nuclear energy released?

• By burning fuel

• By moving turbines

• By chemicals mixing

• By atoms fusing together or splitting apart

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What is potential energy?

• The energy that is stored in objects by a certain force

• One of the two types of energy; is stored energy and the energy of position

• One of the two types of energy; moving energy

• the energy stored in the nucleus of an atom

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What is energy?

• moving from one place to another

• the power to do things

• the ability to do work/cause change

• doing jumping jacks

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The total energy of all particles in an object; the measure of the sum of kinetic and potential energy of the particles.

• Temperature

• Thermal energy

• Heat

• Specific heat capacity

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All the kinetic and potential energy that is associated with an object's motion and position is called

• mechanical energy

• thermal energy

• nuclear energy

• electrical energy

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